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<div class="heading">Premā pum-artho mahān. Caitanya Mahāprabhu recommended that what is the actual benefit of this human form of life? To develop our dormant love for God. That is wanted, not to accumulate money. Nothing will go with us. Everything will remain.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 5.5.2 -- Johannesburg, October 22, 1975|Lecture on SB 5.5.2 -- Johannesburg, October 22, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">
''Jñāna ''means knowledge, acquired knowledge. Everyone is trying to . . . nobody is interested now to understand what is God, but there are some. But they are trying to understand God by mental speculation. So Caitanya Mahāprabhu said: "This practice should be given up, speculation." ''Jñāne prayāsam udapāsya namanta eva''. Just become submissive, ''namanta eva''. Don't think that, "I am very learned scholar. I can manufacture my own way how to find out God," or "I am God," and so on, so on. This practice should be given up. "Just become humble and meek." ''Jñāne prayāsam udapāsya namanta eva''. "Then what shall I do, becoming humble and meek?" ''San-mukharitāṁ bhavadīya-vārtām''. You try to understand about God from a God-realized person. That you do. That will help you. ''Sthāne sthitāḥ''. There is no need of changing your position. You remain wherever you are. ''Śruti-gatāṁ tanu-vāṅ manobhiḥ''. Just lend your this aural reception and try to hear about God from the self-realized person, from ''mahātmā''. Then one day it will become so, that although God is unconquerable, you will conquer Him. ''Prāyena ajita jito 'py asi''. You'll conquer over. God . . . you cannot conquer God, but God agrees to be conquered by His devotee. This is the indirect meaning, to become devotee. This is the way.

And what is the devotional way? ''Śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ ''([[Vanisource:SB 7.5.23-24|SB 7.5.23]]). Just try to hear about Viṣṇu, the Supreme Lord. ''Śravanam''. The first is that you have kindly come here; you are trying to hear. This is very good. This is the beginning of process. Then ''kīrtanam'', ''śravanaṁ kīrtanam''. Whatever you hear, you discuss amongst yourselves. That is called ''kīrtana''. ''Śravanaṁ kīrtanam viṣṇoḥ smaraṇam''. Remember about the topics of God. ''Śravanaṁ kīrtanam viṣṇoḥ smaraṇam pāda-sevanam arcanaṁ vandanam''. There are nine methods. ''Arcanam'', temple worship. So any one of these methods will help you. If you take the nine methods, that is very good. If not, take eight. If not, take seven. If not, take six. Take five, four, three, two. Take at least one. That one is very easy—''śravanam. ''We are opening several centers of Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. Not only we are . . . here are many other centers also to hear about God. That is very essential. ''Śravanaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ smaraṇaṁ pāda-sevanam''. So this process can be practiced even at home. There is no necessity that you have to change your place, you have to give up your business, you have to . . . occupation, or you have to give up your family relationship. No. You remain in your . . . but practice this ''śravanam''. Just like you are hearing here in this hall, you can do it at home. These books are there. I am speaking from the book. You can speak also from the book, and sit down amongst your family members and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa.

So the aim should be how to become friend of God. It doesn't matter whether you remain at home or out of home. Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura says, ''gṛhe bā vanete thāke'', '''hā gaurāṅga' bale ḍāke''. Either you remain at home or outside home, you chant ''śrī kṛṣṇa caitanya prabhu nityānanda śrī-advaita gadādhara śrīvāsādi-gaura-bhakta-vṛnda''. This is the process, very simple process. And Hare Kṛṣṇa. And if you want . . . of course, knowledge will come automatically. If your heart is purified by this ''śravanaṁ kīrtanam ''method, ''ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam ''([[Vanisource:CC Antya 20.12|CC Antya 20.12]]), then the heart will be purified. And God is situated within your heart. Then, as soon as your heart is purified, you'll be able to see God within yourself, within your heart. That is called meditation.
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